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« Reply #15 on: October 28, 2009, 03:20:45 »
Quote from: inspector_blakey on October 28, 2009, 02:20:51
WTF?  Wink

Lest that cause any distress, the last word is of course "fiddlesticks". Although I can't for the life of me figure out how to make this mouse-pointer-hovery-pop-up-thingy work.

Right Blakey, here goes......You need to put the text you want to initialise into something called HTML▸ (Hypertext Markup Language) (Hypertext Markup Language), so for "What the Fiddlesticks?" to appear when you hover over WTF? you need to type (abbr=What the Fiddlesticks?)WTF?(/abbr) replacing the highlighted() with square brackets []. Had to explain it with () to avoid the text disappearing into another MPHPUT.
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« Reply #16 on: October 28, 2009, 03:22:27 »
Ah, Blakey ISYWIO
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« Reply #17 on: October 28, 2009, 03:23:25 »
AOSA!
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« Reply #18 on: October 28, 2009, 03:34:44 »
Well....I'll leave the explanation up for others to learn. The square bracket thingy is also useful to tidy up posts that have links to other webpages. You'll often see posts from Chris from Nailsea (and others) linking to stories elsewhere on the web with HTML▸ (Hypertext Markup Language) that go something like this:

Daily Wail rant(url=www.dailywail.co.uk/news/article=1234567/moaning-about-train-fares-again.html)here(/url).

The word here becomes the link.

Again, replace () with square brackets.
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« Reply #19 on: October 28, 2009, 03:48:30 »
Quote from: paul7755 on October 27, 2009, 21:46:40
Acronyms? I call them initialisations... Grin

Paul

Initialisations? I now call them Initialisms... Grin
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« Reply #20 on: October 28, 2009, 14:29:57 »
Quote from: bignosemac on October 28, 2009, 03:34:44
Well....I'll leave the explanation up for others to learn.

It's all here:
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?action=help;page=post#bbcref

Overuse can get really annoying, though!
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« Reply #21 on: October 28, 2009, 15:04:23 »
Always nice to learn a new trick!
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« Reply #22 on: October 28, 2009, 19:16:16 »
Quote from: plymothian on October 27, 2009, 23:21:35
It's only an acronym when the initials spell another word.



...........AND when the manufactured word is spoken as such !  The World Health Organisation  is called the W - H - 0 , not the same as Dr Who.
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« Reply #23 on: October 28, 2009, 19:31:22 »
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Overuse can get really annoying, though!
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« Reply #24 on: October 28, 2009, 23:01:19 »
Oh god TJ, what have you started! Shocked Shocked
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